I actually got enough of a break from work to watch one episode of anime and this was the winner of course >:3

Watching this makes me remember how similar Hanekawa and I are, personality-wise. Makes me a little sad that she's behind Senjougahara in the love game currently.

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Isn't Senjougahara getting a little lesbiany for no reason? This is the Monogatari series, but I thought things would calm down after Nisemonogatari. I guess each character having random awkward sexual tendencies is the norm now lol

No dumping of 5 episodes that I'm aware of. Didn't say that in Site News when it was announced, and is currently showing only one episode available. The only thing a little special is that free users don't have to wait an extra week--both premium members and free users get to watch the first episode today.

Yeah, Senjougahara isn't acting like her usual self, yuri thrown all up in there

Agree about Senjougahara.

Overall, not really all that into it after episode 1. I'd watched Nekomonogatari Kuro on Sunday, and that had me hooked from start to finish, so I'm a bit disappointed not to get the same feeling from this.

The anime never did a good job of explaining this, but after Senjougahara's trauma is completely dealt with (I think in Nise) her character develops immensely (albeit this is not a good thing). It's really disappointing. There's also a lot, A LOT, of scenes in Hanekawa's arc that the anime has not set you up to completely understand. And I think that the Monogotari expositions are usually quite... poor.